Personally I wouldn't read too much in to the timing. Although the end result looks small the change affects multiple large projects, each with hundreds of mill

Personally I wouldn't read too much in to the timing. Although the end result looks small the change affects multiple large projects, each with hundreds of millions of users, and likely has knock on effects in other parts of google. Sprinkle in a bit of legal review + big company bureaucracy and I can easily imagine it taking 3 months.